Earth’s ‘lumpy potato’ has a deep secret: Scientists unravel the mystery of Indian Ocean’s gravity anomaly
Using advanced computer simulations, researchers have reconstructed the geological past of the region, uncovering a ...
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‘Gravity tractor’ could be deployed to nudge asteroids away from Earth, says European Space Agency
Hollywood films would have us believe the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit. But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to ...
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Check Out These Rare Images of Deimos, One of Mars’ Mysterious Moons
Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...
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Shock study: Black holes turn into white holes where 'time runs backwards'
New theory posits black holes may transition into ‘white holes’, ejecting matter and potentially even time itself, back into ...
'Stranded' NASA astronauts are finally heading home – but what can being in space for so long do to your health?
An eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month space stint for two NASA astronauts who are finally set to come home. But ...
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Magnetically-launched atoms sense motion
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Spinning through space: The astronomers watching the skies for asteroids
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
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Scientists explain everything that might happen to stranded NASA astronauts' bodies when they return to Earth
Scientists have explained everything that might happen to the two 'stranded' NASA astronauts' bodies when they finally return ...
Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
Astronaut who spent over a year in space had major changes to his body as two remain stuck up there now
While Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been in space for nine months, Frank Rubio was in orbit for over a year ...
Weak heart, bad eyesight, and waterlogged brain: Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore nightmare may not end even after returning to Earth
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams face potential long-term health issues after a nine-month space mission.